April 2006
April 30, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, April 30, 2006
¤ The Security Council deadline myth
¤ Violence Uproots 100,000 Iraq Families
¤ Thousands in New York march against war
¤ Six killed; 12 bodies found tortured in Iraq
¤ Break Up the Big Oil Cartel
¤ Praying for Peace or Preying on Peace?
¤ Bloggers Take Internet Fight to the Hill
¤ The United States, Israel, and the Possible Attack on Iran
¤ In El Salvador, An Invasion of American Agriculture
¤ Ashamed of the Stars and Stripes? It Could Happen
¤ The Untold Story of Israel's Bomb
¤ The Fabrication of the Flight 93 Myth
¤ IAEA Finds no Proof of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program
¤ Voting Fraud in the 2004 Presidential Election
¤ Death Made In America Graphic Photos
¤ China, Opec agree to boost energy tie-up in a big way
¤ The Columbine Massacre Unravels
¤ U.S. Ambassador John Bolton Lies
¤ Canadian dollar soars to 28-year high
¤ 'Going to war with the morons you have'
¤ 'Strike Iran, watch Pakistan and Turkey fall'
¤ 27 Miners Killed in Gas Explosion in China
¤ How safe are Indians in Afghanistan?
¤ Israel to speed building of barrier
¤ Seven killed in Iraq, Bush hails efforts to form government
April 29, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, April 29, 2006
¤ US admits Iraq is terror 'cause'
¤ U.S.: FBI Sought Info Without Court OK
¤ U.S. prepares to face U.N. on torture as Amnesty report blasts 'war crimes'
¤ Generals trying to stop new fiasco
¤ How Much is the War in Iraq Costing?
¤ Mad Cow
¤ Bush Is Beyond Repair
¤ Is the Zarqawi video a hoax?
¤ Cuban-American says US backed his plan to raid Cuba
¤ Chevron Earnings Soar 49 Percent to $4B
¤ The TSA: A Belt and Suspenders Kinda Agency
¤ The New Syndrome -- F. E. A. R. -- Fear Everything Anxiety Reaction
¤ 8 soldiers killed in barracks explosion
¤ How dumb does Big Oil think you are?
¤ Bush objects to Spanish version of US anthem
¤ Scathing nuclear report as US brands Iran enemy No 1
¥ The war drums beat louder and louder
¤ Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran
¤ Israel instructs America to attack Iran and Syria
¥ Flashback
¤ Iran nuclear weapons 'years away'
¤ U.S. Intelligence: Iran Years Away from Nuclear Bomb
¤ Iran still years away from having nukes: US intelligence chief
¤ Iran Is Judged 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb
¤ U.S. intelligence agencies say Iran is years away from building nukes
¤ Blix: Iran Years Away From Nuclear Bomb
UNC Chief Whip Ganga Singh Resigns
Posted: Saturday, April 29, 2006
Staff Article
April 29, 2006
Opposition Chief Whip Ganga Singh, today resigned from the position and chastised the current grab for power that is taking place among his colleagues. He labeled it a result of "party politics gone mad".
His resignation was not witnessed by the other members of the Opposition because they walked out of the sitting after Oppostion Leader, Ms. Kamla Persad Bissessar clashed with the Opposition Chief Whip, Ganga Singh. The Oppostion Leader, Ms. Kamla Persad Bissessar did not leave on her own; she was followed out of the Chamber by Couva South MP Kelvin Ramnath, Tabaquite MP Adesh Nanan, Nariva MP Harry Partap and Caroni Central MP Hamza Rafeeq.
In his speech, Mr. Singh claimed that he was constantly being undermined by the other members of the UNC party who even went to the House Speaker Barry Sinanan to have him fired last week.
Winston Dookeran Moves to Back Bench
Earlier on in the sitting, UNC political leader Winston Dookeran and Chaguanas MP Manohar Ramsaran both moved to the back bench in Parliament yesterday to protest the fact that Dookeran was bypassed for the position of Opposition Leader. This position was given to Ms. Kamla Persad Bissessar .
Regarding the act of appointing Ms. Bissessar over Mr. Dookeran, Mr. Singh said it was "the height of tyranny, deceit and the intolerable selfishness". He said he made his decision to resign after some frank discussions with Mr. Dookeran and his constituency members. Mr. Singh will also be moving to the back benches when the next sitting takes place.
Basdeo Panday Granted Bail
Posted: Saturday, April 29, 2006
Staff Article
April 29, 2006
Former Prime Minister and Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday was granted bail in the sum of $300,000.00. Mr. Panday was not considered a flight risk, so the court allowed the UNC CEO, Dr. Tim Gopeesingh and his wife Camini, to stand surety - pending the determination of the appeals.
Mr. Panday's daughter Mikela was relieved and there was a general joy among the supporters in the court.
Dr. Rasheed Rahaman testified at the High Court giving details of Mr. Basdeo Panday's current health condition. He stated that Mr. Panday could die at any moment given his current health condition. This is what convinced Justice Anthony Carmona to grant Mr. Panday bail pending his appeal.
The prison service came under heavy criticism for not being able to properly treat its inmates with serious medical problems.
The three grounds for bail that were put forward by Mr. Panday's defense team:
Mr. Panday had a likely chance of winning his appeal and therefore, should be let out on bail.
Mr. Panday was likely to serve his sentence before his appeal was heard, thus making him a prisoner unfairly.
Mr. Panday's special medical condition warranted him being out on bail, since he could not be properly treated behind bars.
Justice Carmona stated he was not convinced that Mr. Panday would win his appeal, thus ruling out the first grounds for granting him bail. He however agreed that there was a risk that Mr. Panday could have served his time before his appeal was heard. This was not the grounds that he chose to grant the bail.
His basis for granting Mr. Panday's bail was on his inability to be adequately treated in the prison system. This was Justice Carmona's findings:
"Mr. Panday cannot access the constant medical attention, drugs and monitoring he needs from a trained cardiologist in prison, given the fact that he is a heart patient that also suffers from diabetes.
He could suffer a sudden heart attack despite receiving extensive medication."
Defense Council Desmond Allum admitted that the medical condition of Mr. Panday was not presented to Chief Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicolls, therefore he did not have that information when considering the granting of bail to Mr. Panday.
Justice Carmona said that he was deeply disturbed by the failings of the prison system. He stated that in cases like Mr. Panday's, time is of the essence if he gets a heart attack. He stressed that while the offence Mr. Panday was convicted of is very serious, because of his medical condition, keeping Mr. Panday in jail means the state ran the risk of imposing a death sentence on him.
Mr. Panday's extreme medical condition falls in the ballpark of special circumstances under which he could overturn the magistrate's decision. Although he said he agreed with Mr. Allum's submission, that the sentence was too harsh in the first place, he stressed that Chief Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicolls should not be blamed for this, since he did not have the medical evidence when sentencing Mr. Panday.
The DPP declined comment on whether the state will appeal this decision. Mr. Panday was released from the Golden Grove Prison shortly after 6:30pm today. On his release, he stated he had confidence in his attorneys.
April 28, 2006 News
Posted: Friday, April 28, 2006
¤ At least 58 dead in Baqouba fighting
¤ I Can't Afford My Gasoline
¤ Bush Rejects Calls for Tax on Oil Profits
¤ 'Hideous kinky: Moral nullity as normality in Pentagon plans'
¤ Who really runs Iraq?
¤ Al-Zarqawi Video Is A Pentagon Propaganda Psy-Op
¤ TERRORISM IS TERRORISM!
¤ Beware the Hypocrisy of International Allegiances
¤ Report: Sonar May Have Caused Whale Stranding
¤ “Diplomacy,” the smokescreen for savagery
¤ When Governments Deceive and Provoke
¤ Five killed in mine blasts as Sri Lanka edges closer to war
¤ Iraq war set to be more expensive than Vietnam
¤ Visit by Rumsfeld, Rice Sets Off Criticism in Iraq
¤ Molly Ivins: The Great Bush Reclassification Project
¤ Mission Accomplished
¤ Iran rejects UN call to stop enrichment
¤ Gay rights are good business, no matter the politics
¤ A Deadly Duet
¤ Bush's Hypocrisy: Cuban Terrorists
¤ Breaking the Last Taboo
¤ The Case of the Cuban Five
¤ When Nukes Kill, No One Counts the Victims
¤ The questions that "United 93" can't answer
¤ At Long Last, Iran's Oil Bourse Has Arrived!
¤ Long Live The 9/11 Conspiracy!
¤ FBI Activities in Hollywood
¤ Turkey tells Rice it opposes military option
¤ Defining Democracy Down
¤ The U.S. nuclear hypocrisy
¤ 'Still no mission accomplished'
¤ 28 killed in Iraq
¤ Chirac calls for fund to aid Palestinians
¤ Katrina: Eight Months Later
¤ Say No to the US-India Nuclear Deal
¤ The 9/11 Conspiracy: A Skeptic's View
¤ Neil Young joins the hate Bush bandwagon
Judgment Day For The Silver Fox
Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2006
By Linda Edwards
Trinidad and Tobago
In the unprecedented judgment that Mr. Panday will go to jail for corruption, I see some real possibilities of change in TnT: Here is my wish list and comments.
1. I hope we earn a better rating on the Corruption Index that Transparency International issues periodically. Many parts of the world are corrupt. We are publicly doing something about it. We need to be promoted above Bangladesh, at least.
2. I hope that that gadfly Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj finds peace within his soul. He knew all along that his leader was corrupt, and he paid the price for saying so. Those who still think that "even if it name Crapaud, if is we party an' we go vote for he", may now rethink their positions. (Remember the $50,000 donation from abroad meant for the party fund?)
3. I see that President Robinson was right to give Manning the nod back in 2001. (The Privy Council has also found that Manning did no wrong in staying in office).
4. The cost of major projects should drop since everyone connected with them should be as transparent as clear crystal; there will be no cost overruns to line personal pockets.
5. Ish should take in front and surrender his Chaguaramas Hotel to the Government, before they seize it.
6. The generous benefactor of the Panday children, who gave the wife some small change for the children's bills that her husband did not bother about, would put an equal ten million or so into special projects in the Laventille area, especially in the field of additional educational services.
7. This message, of prosecuting the highest crooks would be picked up by the Government of Nigeria who should indict the US Vice President Cheney on corruption charges, since his company Halliburton admitted to bribing a Nigerian official three million US to avoid paying a ten million dollar tax levy. Corruption has a briber and a bribee. Its never one man alone. Cheney was in charge at that time.
8. The airport bribery and corruption scandal - of which this London account was a big player - should proceed, and the government must build an extension to the maximum security wing at Golden Grove in the meantime.
9. It should become the motto of every youth group in the nation that honesty and integrity matter, and crime, including white collar crime, does not pay.
10. The government should review the compensation packages of the police and military people. A decent wage is a motivation towards honesty.
11. Government property, that has a way of quietly disappearing off the books, should be returned quietly, whether they be 4-wheel drive vehicles owned by the Mininstry of Works in the previous government or dump trucks that were part of the airport project or whatever.
12. All those on the public payroll who are inclined to cheat by not putting in a fair day's work, should start really earning their pay lest the forensic auditors get them in their sights.
13. All the time wasting that some members of Parliament indulge in to distract from the people's business should now cease, and all should get to work nation building instead of name calling.
14. The Director of Public Prosecutions should look into filing corruption charges against the doctor mentioned in Dr. Bartolomew's case of misdiagnosing and overcharging. He should however, make sure that if he gets sick, he has a quick exit to a hospital in Cuba, Miami or Jamaica. Alternatively, he should have a family member who is a doctor.
April 27, 2006 News
Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2006
¤ Iraqi vice-president's sister assassinated
¤ The best help
¤ Bomb Blast at Italian Base in Iraq Kills 3
¤ Israeli Airstrike Kills Palestinian
¤ Nothing up my sleeve
¤ Guantanamo Bay prisoner 'tried to commit suicide a dozen times'
¤ Projected Iraq War Costs Soar
¤ Supreme Leader: Iranians 'Peace-Seekers'
¤ Turkey Masses Troops on Iraqi Border
¤ War Crimes and Consequences
¤ Is the War Party Really Reduced to This?
¤ A War on Iran is a War on America
¤ No, It's Not Anti-Semitic
¤ The Long War Posture
¤ Top spy's story on pre-war intel finally told
¤ A Prius in Every Pot
¤ The passion of George W. Bush
¤ The $2-Trillion War
¤ U.S.: More Than 600 Implicated in Detainee Abuse
¤ Prisoner torture numbers fuzzy
¤ Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela to ink People's Trade Treaty
¤ U.S. seeks to keep evidence from 9/11 families
¤ Report: U.S. Unprepared for Major Disaster
¤ America's rags-to-riches dream an illusion
¤ CIA Official Reveals Bush, Cheney, Rice Were Personally Told Iraq Had No WMD in Fall 2002
¤ Stop Bush
¤ Tony Snow On President Bush
¤ Can we criticize Israel without being labeled anti-Semitic?
¤ Media largely ignore ex-CIA official's disclosure
¤ Clashes in Athens as Rice visits
¤ Texas Training Pamphlet
¤ CIA Kidnapped Suspects in EU: Parliament
¤ Is Price Gouging the New WMD?
¤ Why Do So Many Americans Hate America?
¤ US approves tighter Iran sanctions
¤ "The Secret Cabal Got What It Wanted: No Negotiations."
¤ Government Fraud, Despair and Hope
¤ Bush Says He Tried to Avoid War 'To The Max,
¤ Iran, US in tug of war over Middle East
¤ Arabs stake a claim in Iraq
¤ 'Twisted science'
¤ 'Is our democracy sleepwalking into a nightmare?'
¤ 'Who gets the blame for dirty tactics in Iraq?'
April 26, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, April 26, 2006
¤ Crisis building in White House over Iraq war
¤ Interesting Times
¤ Sri Lanka clashes fuel war fears
¤ Chernobyl victims remembered
¤ More top brass blast Rumsfeld
¤ Iraqi Death Toll This Week Over 120
¤ Bush Sinks To 24% In State Poll
¤ Simón Bolívar rides again
¤ Transforming the World into a War-zone
¤ Comical Scotty
¤ Russia ignores U.S., delivers nuclear fuel to India
¤ Venezuela plans more oil discounts
¤ Breaking the silence
¤ Recession Scenarios
¤ Mad about gas prices? Blame government, not Big Oil
¤ Fox host to be named White House spokesman
¤ The making of the April 2006 bin Laden tape
No Bail for Basdeo Panday Today
Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Staff Article
April 25, 2006
Lawyers for convicted Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday were at the Port-of-Spain High Court today, attempting to get bail for Mr. Panday while they appeal the decision handed down yesterday by Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls. The incarcerated former Prime Minister has not been granted bail.
McNicolls found former Prime Minister Mr. Panday guilty on all three counts of failing to declare a London bank account to the Integrity Commission for the years 1997, 1998 and 1999, contrary to Section 27 (1)(b) of the Integrity in Public Life Act, 1987.
Yesterday, Mr. Basdeo Panday was taken to the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca, Trinidad, after being sentenced to a term of two years imprisonment with hard labour.
In the application for bail which was held 'In Camera', Justice Anthony Carmona said that he needed to have some substantial evidence as well as skeletal evidence and transcripts of the matter before he could deal with the bail application. The application was heard at 11 am today and lasted just about 20 minutes in the High Court at the Hall of Justice in Port of Spain. Mr. Panday was represented by Mr. Desmond Allum, Mr. Fyard Hosein, and Mr Rajiv Persad.
The State, represented by Queens Council Sir Timothy Cassel, did not object to bail because they felt that the matter was in the hands of the High Court. Justice Carmona stated that he could not give a ruling right away and the matter has been postponed to Thursday, 27th April at 11:30am. However, the Judge stated that the hearing was mainly for substantive arguments to be made. This means that there is no guarantee that the court will be granting bail to Mr. Panday on Thursday.
In terms of Mr. Panday's Appeal application, his attorney stated they will be filing the papers tomorrow 26th April, 2006.
The attorneys were clearly disappointed that a decision for bail could not be reached today. The Attorneys for Mr. Panday came to court with the expectation that the bail application would have been a very simple procedure. However, because the Judge will have to examine a large amount of documents, the process is expected to be a lengthy one.
None of Mr. Panday's family, supporters or UNC executives were present at the High Court today.
President George Maxwell Richards issued a statement saying that "Mr. Panday shall forthwith cease to perform his duties as a Member of Parliament." This means that Mr. Panday's Couva North seat is now vacant. The President also declared the office of Opposition Leader vacant. The only post that Mr. Panday now holds is Chairman of the United National Congress.
Panday: Guilty As Charged
Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Basdeo Panday on his way to court yesterday
More pictures here...
Staff Article
April 25, 2006
Although a somber day for some, others celebrated when Basdeo Panday, the former Prime Minister, and Opposition leader of Trinidad and Tobago was found guilty on all three counts of failing to declare a London Bank account to the Integrity Commission for the years 1997, 1998 and 1999, which was a violation of Section 27 (1) (b) of the Integrity in Public Life Act of 1987.
Mr. Panday received a sentence of six years imprisonment; two years for every count which are to run concurrently. Lead defense attorney Desmond Allum insisted that the court take into account that Mr. Panday was not brought up on corruption charges but rather on his failure to declare his assets. He also asked the court to take note of Mr. Panday's "impeccable character" and that his public service be considered when determining the judgment. Despite lead defense attorney Desmond Allum's plea for bail and for a reduction in sentence to community service, these were denied by the court, but not before Allum gave notice of their intention to appeal the decision of imprisonment which would be taken to a judge in chambers on Friday.
In this regard, the former Prime Minister would spend the next few days behind bars at the Maximum Security Prison, Golden Grove until his lawyers can secure his bail.
In addition to his imprisonment, Panday was fined $60,000 ($20,000 for each count), failure of which, he would serve an additional sentence of three years hard labour.
Moreover, Mr. Panday was ordered to pay the state about TT$1.6 million by way of forfeiture, representing the money Mr. Panday failed to declare to the Integrity Commission.
This verdict was handed down by Magistrate Sherman McNicolls at the Port-of-Spain Eight Magistrates Court at about 10.30 Monday morning.
This verdict may affect Panday's political career in that, and in the words of Professor John La Guerre, his de facto leadership would have to be re-examined. Professor La Guerre also stressed that it could act as a fetter to the development of the UNC.
Some have cried injustice and even called for a Presidential pardon for Mr. Panday because of his long-standing service as a trade unionist, and his service as the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader of Trinidad and Tobago. Only time would tell if such sympathies are felt by the highest powers of the land and could translate into a pardon.
Furthermore, Mr. Panday's incarceration has put the stability of the UNC into further question. Mr. Panday, despite this controversy, is regarded by many as the backbone of the UNC, and as such, the end of Mr. Panday's leadership may mean to some the end of the party.
According to the constitution of Trinidad and Tobago, Section 49 2D and 3 deals with the Tenure of Office of Members. It states that a member of Parliament has to be disqualified if he or she is under sentence of death imposed on him by a court or is serving a sentence of imprisonment exceeding 12 months or substituted by competent authority for some other offence or is under such a sentence of imprisonment, the execution of which has been suspended. However, if the court's decision is being appealed with or without the leave of the court or other authority, the Member shall not vacate his seat until the expiration of 30 days, which means he will not lose his seat but he cannot function as an MP.
Last night, an executive meeting of the UNC was held at the Rienzi Complex in Couva to attempt to determine the fate of the party among other things such as the possible appointment of a new political leader.
It is the first time in the history of Trinidad and Tobago that a former Prime Minister has been found guilty of criminal activity and sentenced for a breach of the law.
April 25, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
¤ Preparing for the Economic Typhoon
¤ I'M THE DECIDER
¤ Is the US Waging Israel's Wars?
¤ The World is Uniting Against the Bush Imperium
¤ Warporations
¤ Tariq Shadid: Phased Ethnic Cleansing
¤ Build your own Iraqi police squad for a little cash
¤ The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time
¤ The Corporate Control Of Society and Human Life
¤ Black holes 'energy-efficient'
¤ 'Cheney still profits from Halliburton ties'
¤ Halliburton collected $100,000 a day for a pipeline it never built
¤ US will go for other states after Iran and Iraq, says Margolis
¤ Female Bomber Kills 8 in Sri Lanka
¤ 3 Arrested in Egyptian Resort Bombings
¤ Understanding Osama bin Laden through the lenses of the past
¤ The Shame of Katrina is still with us
¤ Is an Iraq-style regime change possible in Iran?
¤ Chavez: U.S. Diplomat Welcome in Venezuela
¤ Pakistan Stressed by US Designs on Iran
¤ Shifting Realities on Iraq
¤ RUMMYACHE
¤ Shifting Realities on Iraq
¤ Why Bush Is Going Nuclear
¤ The Coming Nuclear Epiphany in Persia
¤ Kidnapped recruits found shot
¤ Iraq war getting more expensive
¤ This is embarrassing, but I've become a fossil fuel supporter
¤ White voters turn against Mayor of New Orleans
¤ World Bank accused of lying over funding to fight malaria
¤ This is no rah-rah revolt
¤ Nepalese opposition calls off protests
April 24, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, April 24, 2006
¤ Israelis Warned Before Blasts To Stay Away From Sinai
¤ Tehran insider tells of US black ops
¤ On Waking Up Sleepless in the Middle of the Night
¤ Transforming the World into a War-zone
¤ All War-All The Time
¤ Egyptian analyst: Can't rule out that Mossad was involved in attack
¤ Chavez moves toward nationalizing Venezuela oil
¤ The Corporate Control Of Society And Human Life
¤ email to Antiwar.com
¤ It’s the oil, stupid
¤ The Absurdity (and Consistency) of White Denial
¤ Setting the Record Straight
¤ US spies infiltrate Iran from the Azerbaijani territory
¤ Bush Brandishes Jail Time at Critics
¤ Several dead in Egypt blasts
¤ Iran: The Intelligence Reports vs. the Hard-Liners
¤ 7 car bombs explode in Baghdad, bodies of 20 other Iraqis are found
¤ At the Very Least, Let's Not Repeat Iraq
¤ War Pigs
¤ A Wake-Up Call for the President
¤ In War-Wrecked Ramadi, Marines Keep Moving
¤ Palestinian killed by Israeli tank shell
¤ Gunmen kill four policemen in Iraq's Tikrit
¤ Witness: Up to 22 dead in Egypt explosions
¤ Five dead, five missing in plane crash
¤ Staying In Iraq 'Till Kingdom Come
¤ Candidates Ask That Race Be Kept Out of Runoff
¤ Stolen Away
¤ We are the deciders
¤ Democracy, Musharraf and the United States
¤ Chips down, Bush prepares a Hail Mary bet
¤ Levees not fully ready for hurricane season
¤ Last Rites for Shrivelling Dead Sea
¤ Oiloholic Nation Has No Business Lecturing China
¤ New Orleans in Black and White
¤ 15 Minutes of Radical Fame
¤ Israeli crimes blanked out in UK
¤ Thermite Identified As Culprit Of WTC Collapse
I'm The Decider (Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo)
Posted: Sunday, April 23, 2006
I'M THE DECIDER
(Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo)
I am me and Rummy's he, Iraq is free and we are all together
See the world run when Dick shoots his gun, see how I lie
I'm Lying...
Sitting on my own brain, waiting for the end of days
Corporation profits, Bloody oil money
I'm above the law and I'll decide what's right or wrong
I am the egg head, I'm the Commander, I'm the Decider
Koo-Koo-Kachoo
(Check out the audio)
Full Article : decider.cf.huffingtonpost.com
April 23, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, April 23, 2006
¤ CIA warned Bush of no WMD in Iraq
¤ Fidel ordered Chávez's 'Rescue'
¤ Damning Evidence of 'Big Oil' Conspiracy To Limit Supply
¤ Warning: oil will hit $85 a barrel this year
¤ Attack Iran, Ignore the Constitution
¤ Six police officers killed in ambush at checkpoint
¤ Afghanistan's Capital Mostly in the Dark
¤ Venezuela, Cuba likely to get U.N. spots
¤ While Washington Slept
¤ Nepalis scorn king's offer
¤ Fighting Escalates in Southern Afghanistan
¤ America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
¤ Anti-Iranian Hysteria
¤ Bombs hit Iraq marketplace
¤ The Great Chinese Fake-Out
¤ Blood Is Thicker Than Blackwater
¤ How to Manufacture a War Criminal
¤ America's Gulag
¤ New Plans Foresee Fighting Terrorism Beyond War Zones
¤ Iraq Three Years after “Liberation”
¤ Wars for Oil
¤ 'New Orleans is our Gettysburg', A Generation's Defining Event
¤ Slighting China, Threatening Iran
¤ Swedish Central Bank Dumps Dollar
¤ The Unravelling Of The Doctrine Of MAD In 2006
¤ Nuclear blackmail: The essence of U.S. foreign policy
¤ UN SAYS THOUSANDS ILEGALLY DETAINED IN IRAQ
¤ Hu ends US tour marked by lack of accords and embarrassment
¤ Who's the dog? Who's the tail?
¤ Freedom Rider: America's Last Days
¤ US and Iran trade barbs at oil forum
¤ Iran, Russia Reach Enrichment Deal
¤ Bombings in Northern Iraq Market Kills 2
¤ Worldwide Terror Attacks Exceed 10,000
¤ Deadly serious war games
¤ Strike Iran, Watch Pakistan and Turkey Fall
¤ Killing Thousands of Iraqis: Is It Murder or Isn't It?
¤ Condi and the Bush Monarchy Above the Law
¤ Lies, damn lies...and indirect quotes
¤ IRAN WINS AGAIN
Damning Evidence of 'Big Oil' Conspiracy To Limit Supply
Posted: Saturday, April 22, 2006
Excerpts from The Oil Industry, Gas Supply and Refinery Capacity: More Than Meets the Eye (PDF), a 2001 investigative report by Senator Wyden of Oregon outlining how, over a period of ten years, Big Oil companies orchestrated the current crisis in oil prices.
The oil industry and its allies would have the public believe that insufficient refining capacity, restrictive environmental standards, growing gasoline demand and OPEC production cutbacks are the primary reasons for the current oil and gas supply problem.
Full Article : wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com
April 21, 2006 News
Posted: Friday, April 21, 2006
¤ Bush Is Becoming An Increasingly Dangerous President
¤ No Rush To Figure Out This Song
¤ Fear of Flying with George Bush
¤ Rice Allegedly Leaked Defense Info
¤ Iran ready for “full’ cooperation with IAEA: envoy
¤ Damning Evidence of ‘Big Oil’ Conspiracy To Limit Supply
¤ Here it comes
¤ Cheney Profits From Katrina
¤ 'Forrest Gump's evil twin'
¤ Here it comes
¤ Russia toughens opposition to Iran sanctions
¤ 1 Million Dead Iranians
¤ Developments in Iraq on April 21
¤ Israel Preparing To Reoccupy Gaza?
¤ Pure-and-Simple Revolutions
¤ Lies, damn lies...and indirect quotes
¤ Media treats the show trial of Zacarias Moussaoui as news instead of farce
¤ No Moussaoui 'shoe bomber' link
¤ 14 dead in Nepalese violence
¤ 11 Iraqis Killed in Scattered Violence
¤ EU accused of ignoring human rights abuses in rush for gas deal
¤ Medical error 'may have caused Sharon's stroke'
¤ Nepal: Last stand of a monarchy
¥ Democracy = Monarchy without crown. See Bush
¤ The One Certainty About Iraq: Spiraling Costs for Americans
¤ The Architects of War
¤ A Team in a Slump
¤ When all else fails and you're becoming Nixon 2.0
¤ The Complicity of the North
¤ Chavez: Oil Will Be Destroyed if Attacked
¤ Jewish Settlers Aggressions Against Al Aqsa
¤ Saudi Arabia fortifying border with Iraq
¤ Shame on the Post's Editorial Page
¤ We're not as terror-fied
¤ Iraqis Fleeing Country Because of Violence
¤ Once upon a time in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan
¤ Walking the White House plank
¤ Our Dirty War
¤ Iran still years away from having nukes: US
¤ The Media on Speed
April 20, 2006 News
Posted: Thursday, April 20, 2006
¤ Sex and money bought Iraq contracts
¤ Pushing Palestinians to the edge
¤ Oil: the party is over
¤ Scientists condemn US as emissions of greenhouse gases hit record level
¤ Crude Oil Prices Rise Above $73 a Barrel
¤ Coup and counter-coup: The struggle for Iraq
¤ Congenital Liars and Hypocrites
¤ 'Of Little Boys and Fat Men'
¤ Pentagon Guantanamo List Angers Nations
¤ The Worst President in History?
¤ Gas Prices Too High? Blame The Middleman, NOT Iran
¤ The Billion-Dollar Baghdad Embassy
¤ Bush Blunders Go Nuclear
¤ Russia rejects US call to quit Iran power plant
¤ Israel Fires 400 Rockets on Gaza in 2 Days
¤ The veil of 'American Liberation' descends upon Iraqi Women
¤ America’s Terror-war in Iraq
¤ Big Business Sees A Chance For Ethnic and Class Cleansing
¤ Bush sacrifices key policymaker in reshuffle
¤ Berlusconi silent after Prodi declared Italian election victor
¤ Briton jailed for 15 years in Iraq
¤ Annual execution figures show dramatic fall
¤ The truth about fraud
¤ Protesters killed as Nepal police shoot at crowd
¤ Blair and Straw at odds over US action in Iran
¤ Unforeseen Spending on Materiel Pumps Up Iraq War Bill
¤ FBI wants columnist Jack Anderson's papers
¤ Knowing Why Not To Bomb Iran Is Half the Battle
¤ Mccarthyism Redux: Avoid The Substance; Attack The Messenger
¤ The Real First Casualty of War
¤ Millions of Refugees are Hidden Victims
¤ More involved in Oklahoma City bombing?
¤ Blast Hits Near U.S. Embassy in Kabul
April 19, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
¤ Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map
¤ North America Harbors the World's Most Dangerous Terrorists
¤ Three university professors shot dead by gunmen in Baquba
¤ British Euro-MP condemns Israel's apartheid policies
¤ The four deficits confronting U.S.
¤ The Twilight of Capitalism
¤ Nature abhors a security vacuum, and so do Iraq's militias
¤ CIA subliminal message
¤ Bush: the Decider Dictator
¤ War Crimes And The Struggle For Truth
¤ public service announcement - things aren't born from nothing
¤ Double Standards for the Rich and Poor in New York
¤ The Worst President in History?
¤ United States is No Help to Iraqi Women
¤ It's Called Mad For A Reason, You Fool!
¤ Oil hits new high over $73 on Iran, US stocks
¤ Chavez begins turning off US oil taps after inking deal with India
¤ The Biggest, Most Successful and Most Dangerous Spin of All
¤ Civil wars create new crisis
¤ Bush won't rule out nuclear strike on Iran
¤ Baghdad street battle smacks of open civil war
¤ Breaking the silence
¤ With Friends Like These . . .
¤ U.S., China face off
¤ G8 Summit: Russia to Propose Europe a Capitulation
¤ Waco and the Bipartisan Police State
¤ How Big Is Bush's Big Government?
¤ The 2006 Pulitzers...and the death of local reporting
¤ 2 charged for Holocaust denial
¤ Report criticizes U.S. terror info sharing
¤ Most Americans Do Not Trust Bush on Iran
¤ Chavez says US warships threaten Venezuela, Cuba
¤ History shows Jews and Christians killed more Muslims
¤ When "Diplomacy" Means War
¤ Mission of Frustration in Afghan Villages
¤ Neil Young urges Bush impeachment on protest album
¤ America meets the new superpower
¤ Your Tax Dollars On Drugs
¤ Lesson From the Other Americas: "Si, Se Puede
¤ A 'Pulitzer Prize for Treason'
¤ David Vs. Goliath
¤ Bush's Latest Nuclear Gambit
¤ Seeing Baghdad, Thinking Saigon
¤ The Cold War on Terror
April 18, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, April 18, 2006
¤ Would Someone Explain to Rumsfeld the Difference Between
¤ The Washington Post vs. Venezuela
¤ The Zarqawi Gambit, Revisited
¤ The Immigrants are Coming, The Immigrants are Coming
¤ Rumsfeld Shouldn't be Fired, He Should be Indicted
¤ CDC Says Bird Flu Not Serious Threat to Humans
¤ US to call for freeze on Iran assets and visa curbs
¤ Study shows the public is turning to alternative medicine
¤ THE REAL WMD'S IN IRAQ - OURS
¤ Berlusconi's Men "Doctor" Niger Uranium Dossier
¤ U.S. invasion responsible deaths of over 250,000 civilians in Iraq
¤ Pentagon acknowledges fabricating a "Zarqawi Legend"
¤ No wonder Chavez makes Bush uneasy
¤ States Omitting Minorities' Test Scores
¤ Rumsfeld: US Media Manipulated By bin Laden and Zarqawi...
¤ Psychologist: Moussaoui's Conduct Abnormal
¤ US plots ‘new liberation of Baghdad’
¤ The Ongoing War on Truth in Iraq
¤ Robbery, not reconstruction, in Iraq
¤ US support for moving borders is just a charade
¤ Diagnosing the U.S. ‘national character’: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
¤ The scheme behind the bombardment of Iraq
¤ The oil reason for Iran talk
¤ Court rejects appeal by Guantánamo inmates
¤ State Department Memo: '16 Words' Were False
¤ Where Do We Meddle Next?
¤ Deaths of Afghan Civilians Investigated
¤ The Crimes of Mena
¤ Tel Aviv blast kills nine
¤ If Americans Knew - what every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine
¤ Islamophobia Rising in UK Schools: Teachers
¤ To end terrorism, end illegal occupations
¤ New differences stall Iraq government
¤ Sanctions Against Iran
¤ Oil Prices Climb to New Intraday High
¤ Bomb Under Couch at Baghdad Cafe Kills 7
¤ Bush's New Chief of Staff Signals Shake-Up
¤ It’s no wonder we’re faring so poorly in Iraq
¤ Oil prices rise amid Iran fears
¤ Flood chaos as Danube reaches 100-year high
¤ After 400 years, capitalism is a colossal and catastrophic failure
After 400 years, capitalism is a colossal failure
Posted: Tuesday, April 18, 2006
It is now practically a staple or fad of bourgeois propaganda, which proudly calls itself "news," to characterize the Left, communism and socialism as outmoded, old, old-fashion, antiquated, so 19th century, and obsolete ideological baggage.
The same treatment is also administered in smaller dosages to populism, that is, a political movement that promotes the rights and interests of the common people or the masses largely without systematic ideology or with a mishmash of eclectic ideologies.
But capitalism and bourgeois ideology ... that is, garbage like liberalism and conservatism and all the rubbish between these extremes of bourgeois ideology ... are older than communism and socialism.
Full Article : trinicenter.com
April 17, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, April 17, 2006
¤ Bombs That Would Backfire
¤ The US, Iran and the End of the International Order
¤ Blood on Our Hands
¤ The Most Evil People in the World
¤ Twelve shooting victims found around Baghdad
¤ Car bomb kills 11 in Iraq
¤ The Disintegration of Iran and the US
¤ A war of nerves
¤ The new breed of soldier: Robots with guns
¤ US tourism industry on the decline
¤ Scientists say they're being gagged by Bush
¤ The United State of Israelamerica
¤ To end terrorism, end illegal occupations
¤ BBC Propaganda
¤ Descent into Anger and Despair
¤ How Long Will MoveOn.org Fail to Oppose Bombing Iran?
¤ Gaza: severe food shortage
¤ Avian flu: Worldwide catastrophe or 'fearmongering'?
¤ Recipe for Holy War: Add two nut jobs and stir
¤ China, Russia welcome Iran into the fold
¤ 60 Killed When Bus Slides Off Mexico Cliff
¤ Thousands flee Balkan floods
¤ Tel Aviv blast kills nine
¤ Iraq PM impasse sparks new delay
¤ Anatomy of a Revolt
¤ US kills seven Afghan civilians
¤ Bush's bogus document dump
¤ What Rumsfeld knew
¤ Former Iranian president reaffirms peaceful use of nuclear program
¤ Taliban dismiss occupation orces claim
¤ US Farm Subsidies Hurting Africa's Development
¤ Reflections on Milosevic
¤ Grand Theft Babylon
¤ Lanka blast kills four soldiers
¤ Clashes break out in northern Baghdad
¤ Pro-hunting Japanese seize control of whaling commission
¤ Doctor provided first aid for insurgents - killed police and soldiers
¤ A migrant community that has always tried to be invisible has become active
¤ US firms suspected of bilking Iraq funds
¤ Britons Feeling 'Tired of Tony'
¤ Militant Iran warn US against attack
¤ Oil leaps toward $70 as Iran anxiety builds
¤ Busting Empty Bunkers
The joke's on Bush as Chavez strikes it even luckier
Posted: Sunday, April 16, 2006
Estimated oil reserves have just overtaken those of Saudi Arabia
There is nowhere on this earth quite like Caracas. Certainly the business traveller has no shortage of time to admire the physical beauty of its setting - two-hour traffic jams characterise this oil-boom city, where petrol costs a mere tuppence a litre. We'd better get used to it. For Venezuela has just overtaken Saudi Arabia in its estimated oil reserves to become number one in the world. Venezuela is here to stay.
When the reports of the country's latest good fortune came through to New York, a banker turned to me and said: "Surely by now George Bush must realise God is not on his side." Even under the old estimates, Venezuela already had its place as a major oil producer guaranteed for the next 80 years. Now it would appear to stretch into infinity. Together with the Middle East, Caracas will be the major force in world energy markets.
Full Article : trinicenter.com
April 16, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, April 16, 2006
¤ The Danger of Hugo Chávez's Successful Socialism
¤ Retired colonel claims U.S. military operations are already 'underway' in Iran
¤ U.S. backup plan: invade iran by land, air, water strikes
¤ News whiteout
¤ Who is a terrorist?
¤ Iran promises $50 million for Palestinians
¤ Traitors, martyrs or just brave men?
¤ U.S. immigration ballyhoo
¤ Drumbeat of War is Drowning Out Wiser Counsels
¤ A Look at Africa's Exploitation
¤ Zarqawi; the Pentagon’s ongoing war of deception
¤ Gaza on brink of implosion as aid cut-off starts to bite
¤ So how close is a showdown over Iran?
¤ Drugs crisis: Prozac nation
¤ Iran suicide bombers ‘ready to hit Britain’
¤ Neo-Crazy Plans for Iran
¤ Iraq speeches have done little to buoy war support
¤ Mission Accomplished: Al-CIA-duh Leaves Iraq
¤ Iraq latest example of U.S. aggression around world
¤ The joke's on Bush as Chavez strikes it even luckier
¤ McDonald's Accused of 'Acting Like the Taliban'
¤ US Strike on Iran Could Make Iraq Look Like a Warm-Up Bout
¤ Documents Link Rumsfeld to Prisoner's Interrogation
¤ 'Speak softly, don't argue and slow down'
¤ Stop the madness
¤ 41 Taliban killed in Afghan gunbattle
¤ Experts warn against Iran attack
¤ Iran’s President: Israel serious threat to Islamic world
¤ U.S. and the Allies of Evil’s next target–Iran
¤ Permission to Speak Freely, Sir
¤ Lying no longer stirs deadened senses
¤ Falling into the abyss
¤ $18 billion - Iraq's Annual Oil Losses
¤ The Failure Of The U.S. "Free Press"
Mission Accomplished: Al-CIA-duh Leaves Iraq
Posted: Saturday, April 15, 2006
By Kurt Nimmo, kurtnimmo.com
"Al Qaeda in Iraq and its presumed leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi, have conceded strategic defeat and are on their way out of the country, a top U.S. military official contended yesterday," reports the Moonie, er Washington Times. "They no longer view Iraq as fertile ground to establish a caliphate and as a place to conduct international terrorism," Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, who commands the XVIII Airborne Corps, said in an address at the neocon Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a criminal organization joined at the hip with the likes of the Project for the New American Century and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, criminal syndicates responsible for the intellectual basis behind the murder of a couple hundred thousand Iraqis and Afghans. Lt. Gen. Vines made his comment "as news broke that coalition and Iraqi forces had killed an associate of Osama bin Laden's during an early morning raid near Abu Ghraib about two weeks ago." Rafid Ibrahim Fattah aka Abu Umar al Kurdi was supposedly a "liaison" between "al-Qaeda," the Taliban, and other "Pakistani-based extremists" (that is to say Pakistani intelligence created extremists). Al-Kurdi "had ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, formed while he was in Iran and Pakistan, and joined the jihad in Afghanistan in 1989, the military said." In other words, he was a CIA, Pakistani and British intelligence asset.
Now that Iraq is pitched in a bloody "civil war" (engineered social and cultural destruction), no longer is there a need for "al-Qaeda" to be in the country, soon to be three separate balkanized statelets. According to Gen. Vines, "foreign extremists" are "looking for more fertile ground," presumably Iran, the next target on the neocon hit list. It should come as no surprise that al-Kurdi was spotted in Iran, a "fact" the Moonie Times made sure to mention. Back in 2004, the Bush nine eleven whitewash commission concluded "that al Qaeda's relationship with Tehran and its client, the Hezbollah militant group, was long-standing and included cooperation on operations," according to the CIA's favorite newspaper, the Washington Post. The whitewash commission report "also details previously unknown links between the two, including the revelation that as many as 10 of the Sept. 11 hijackers may have passed through Iran in late 2000 and early 2001 because Iranian border guards were instructed to let al Qaeda associates travel freely." In other words, Iran had a role in nine eleven, as did Saddam, never mind that the tenuous and fantastical connection between Saddam and "al-Qaeda" was completely discredited as nonsense. "There were a lot more active contacts, frankly, with Iran and with Pakistan than there were with Iraq," declared nine eleven whitewash honcho Thomas Keane, a "bagman for Saudi interests," as Chris Floyd writes, and "an oil business partner of Osama bin Laden's financier and brother-in-law, Saudi magnate Khalid bin Mahfouz." But pay no attention to the man behind the curtain... he is but a lever-pusher for the Great and Mighty Oz.
Meanwhile, according to a recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll, nearly half of surveyed Americans believe "their government should mind its own business internationally," reports Yahoo News. "Amid growing opposition to the US-led war in Iraq, the number of Americans who think the United States 'should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along as best they can on their own,' has risen from 33 percent to 46 percent over the past three years, the poll said," thus reflecting George Washington's warning that the country should avoid foreign entanglements. Such "opens the door to foreign influence and corruption," Washington said in his Farewell Address. It is precisely the "foreign influence and corruption" of the Straussian neocons, AIPAC, and the neoliberal globalists, who believe the originating ideals of the United States and the Constitution need to be destroyed in the relentless march to a world totalitarian government.
Considering such a large number of Americans agree with Washington and the founders, one has to ask if they are now willing to act on their belief and demand their hijacked government stop mucking around in the Middle East. On October 21, 1967, 70,000 demonstrators came to Washington to "Confront the War Makers." 50,000 of them surrounded the Pentagon and more than a few engaged in civil disobedience.
I believe we need a repeat of this action.
But I don't know if the American people are up to it.
Reprinted from: http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=336
April 15, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, April 15, 2006
¤ Dead Cities
¤ Baghdad Morgue Overflowing Daily
¤ Venezuela tightens oil grip
¤ If You Liked the Iraq War, You'll Love the Iran War
¤ Car Bombs With Wings: A History of the Car Bomb
¤ US Allies are Behind the Death Squads and Ethnic Cleansing
¤ U.S. blocks UN draft pressing Israel to end attacks
¤ Attacking Iran
¤ Bad Times for Bush's Buddies
¤ African Protests Against “We Toil Like Negroes” Billboard
¤ Hispanics to Catch up to African Americans in Internet Use
¤ The Colored Mind Doubles
¤ Asshole: a Film Strip
¤ Britain took part in mock Iran invasion
¤ Army report on al-Qaida accuses Rumsfeld
¤ Berlusconi's last stand dashed by vote error
¤ On the ground, it's a civil war
¤ Rumsfeld approved torture: report
¤ Israel: The Dead Roach in America's Salad
¤ A war of leaks, lies and legalities
¤ 400 killed in clashes
¤ Destroying Iraq's Heritage ... yet again
¤ The Death of British Freedom
¤ Oil price breaks $70 mark as Iran nuke tension simmers
¤ Bush "Tried To Cherry Pick Intelligence And Feed The Line To Gullible Reporters"...
¤ 'Generally speaking, it's a quagmire'
¤ 'McKinney, DeLay and distraction'
¤ 13 killed in Indonesia train crash
¤ Attacks in Iraq kill 42
¤ Governor: 41 Taliban killed in battle
Palast: Why Rumsfeld Should Not Resign
Posted: Saturday, April 15, 2006
Desert Rats Leave The Sinking Ship - Why Rumsfeld Should Not Resign
Well, here they come: the wannabe Rommels, the gaggle of generals, safely retired, to lay siege to Donald Rumsfeld. This week, six of them have called for the Secretary of Defense's resignation.
Well, according to my watch, they're about four years too late -- and they still don't get it.
Full Article : trinicenter.com
April 14, 2006 News
Posted: Friday, April 14, 2006
¤ I hate to pay taxes just so they can go and bomb more people'
¤ Iran escapes UN ban on caviar exports
¤ RAF doctor who refused Iraq service is jailed
¤ Immigration and America's Bad Karma
¤ Powell's "Bitch"
¤ The Lobby and the Bulldozer
¤ Not So Fast, Mr. Powell
¤ End Game for the Lizard Brains?
¤ Neocons Turn Up Heat for Iran Attack
¤ Learning to Count: The Dead in Iraq
¤ US allies are behind the death squads and ethnic cleansing
¤ Haditha, Iraq
¤ George W. Bush IS a Liar
¤ White House Whopper Becomes Instant Classic
¤ Another Bush 9/11 Lie Exposed
¤ Don't Create a Government in Iraq
¤ If ever there was a nation not to drive to extremes, it is Iran
¤ China has carried off the world's largest reduction in poverty
¤ Rumsfeld lies, AP covers it up
¤ How US fuelled myth of Zarqawi the mastermind
¤ Ariel Sharon’s sons to disconnect their father from life-support system
¤ Big Oil, Like Big Tobacco, Talks Sweet But Plays Dirty
¤ Bush Makes Familiarly Scary Noises
¤ How to survive in Iraq: change your name
¤ Women were more respected under Saddam,
¤ Insurgents ambush Iraqi police convoy
¤ The End of the Internet?
¤ Dead Cities
¤ Deja Vu Times Three
¤ U.S. Energy Dept. Concludes Venezuela Could Have Biggest Oil Reserves in OPEC
¤ Indian Kashmir blasts kill five
April 13, 2006 News
Posted: Thursday, April 13, 2006
¤ Bush and his team caught up in their web of lies
¤ Lies, damn lies and George W. Bush
¤ White House admits Iraq WMDs error
¤ No Body Believes a Liar
¤ NIGER-GATE: THE SCANDAL BEHIND THE SCANDAL
¤ THE LIE OF THE CENTURY
¤ Now Powell Tells Us
¤ White House Demands Media 'Correct' Itself
¤ Iran Could Produce Nuclear Bomb in 16 Days
¤ Analysts Say a Nuclear Iran Is Years Away
¤ Iran Can Now Make glowing Mickey Mouse Watches
¤ Terrorist 'lookalike' wins $27.5m
¤ Independent thinking
¤ Benchmarks: Cruel April in Iraq
¤ Retired US Iraq general demands Rumsfeld resign
¤ Bush's Insane First Strike Policy
¤ Resistance: the Remedy for Fear
¤ The Corporate Hijack of India's Water
¤ Bomb kills 26 at Iraq mosque
¤ U.S. renegs on Chemical Weapons agreement
¤ The Poor Man's Air Force: A History of the Car Bomb
¤ Couric Isn't Qualified to Anchor News
¤ New Attacks Foment Fear in Afghanistan
¤ Italy vote rigged: Berlusconi
¤ Fossil connects human evolution dots
¤ Bush wins 2006 Jefferson Muzzle award
¤ Israel Making a New Demand for War, on Iran This Time
¤ Less international tourists coming to US
¤ The Emperor Has No Clothes
¤ Zarqawi-gate: More important than you think...
¤ The Al Qaeda Myth
¤ Imminent Decline of Empire?
¤ Saddam was not an enemy of the Shiites
¤ Paul Wolfowitz's Heart of Darkness
¤ A criminal comparison
¤ Rebels storm Chad capital
¤ Doctors, NGOs warn of high infant mortality in Basra
¤ On "Preventive War," Kissinger Becomes Bush's "Useful Idiot"
¤ The Century of the Self
¤ Democracy Be Damned - Republicans Need Another War
¤ Padilla Can't Wait
¤ Bush Must Be Shocked: He's The Leaker
April 12, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
¤ Gaza families watch in awe and fear as Israelis pour in 300 shells a day
¤ Berlusconi refuses to concede and demands recount
¤ The Gang That Couldn't Leak Straight
¤ Palestinian Health Care Conditions Under Israeli Occupation
¤ This George Is No Washington
¤ America’s influence over Indian politics and its likely consequences
¤ A Strange and Troubling War
¤ A for Anarchy, E for Execution
¤ Bush's Crumbling "Coalition" in Iraq
¤ Saddam's trial: playing the genocide card
¤ The Human Costs of Bombing Iran
¤ Don't Attack Iran
¤ Stop Bush Before he Attacks Iran
¤ Running out of Patience in Iraq
¤ Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary
¤ Iraqi politician warns of 'river of blood'
¤ Political turmoil leaves Iraq adrift
¤ A Glimpse into the Mind of a Terrorist
¤ US Policy Directed by Israel Lobby
¤ Battle in Afghanistan continuing
¤ Karachi bomb attack leaves at least 45 Sunni worshippers dead
¤ Seven children killed as rocket hits school in Afghanistan
¤ The US and Britain are goading Iran to acquire nuclear weapons
¤ Iran announces it has joined world's nuclear nations
¤ Mr. Bush, We Know What You Did That Summer! 09-11-01
¤ The Earth is Closing in on Us
¤ Drug firms 'hype up diseases to boost sales'
¤ U.S. War on Iran: When, Not If
¤ Moussaoui judge won't make public Flight 93 cockpit recordings
¤ The Smoke and Explosion
Aboard Flight 93
¤ Liberia: Sanction May Be Lifted Soon
¤ Three years after looting of Iraqi National Museum...
¤ Gospel Of Judas: His Side Of The Story
¤ Bush appears to lose another Iraq war ally in Italy's Berlusconi
¤ Sharon Declared Permanently Incapacitated
¤ Venezuela blasts US envoy on coup anniversary
¤ Venezuela urges US ambassador to share plans amid diplo-row
¤ 'China wants Sudan's oil'
Venezuela Says U.S. Preparing For Invasion
Posted: Tuesday, April 11, 2006
A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group is moving into the Caribbean this week to start two months of naval exercises.
The military is dismissing allegations by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that it is planning an invasion of his country. But analysts say the show of force sends a signal to Chavez and other Latin American leaders about U.S. strength.
"There's no other symbol of American power like the carrier," said the Southern Command's chief of staff.
Full Article : thekansascitychannel.com
U.S. aircraft carriers head to Caribbean
Big pharma over-hypes or even makes up diseases
Posted: Tuesday, April 11, 2006
A leading medical journal says big pharma over-hypes or even makes up diseases for profit.
April 11, 2006
Pharmaceutical companies are selling their treatments through disease-mongering tactics that frame ordinary physiology in terms of disease, according to a series of papers published Tuesday in a leading medical journal.
The 11 publications in PLoS Medicine claimed the industry portrays mild problems as serious diseases, promotes risk factors as diseases, and makes medical problems out of ordinary life events such as menopause.
"Disease mongering turns healthy people into patients, wastes precious resources, and causes iatrogenic harm [harm induced by a physician's actions]," said a paper by the journal’s editors, Ray Moynihan and David Henry.
"Like the marketing strategies that drive it, disease mongering poses a global challenge to those interested in public health, demanding in turn a global response," they said.
The authors point the finger at industry-funded disease-awareness campaigns, which they say are "more often designed to sell drugs than to illuminate or inform or educate about the prevention of illness or the maintenance of health."
Full Article : redherring.com
Channel 4 Smears Chavez
Posted: Tuesday, April 11, 2006
On March 27, Channel 4 News included a report by Washington Correspondent Jonathan Rugman: 'Hugo to go?'
Rugman relentlessly smeared Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, in a piece described by John Pilger as "one of the worst, most distorted pieces of journalism I have ever seen". (Email to Channel 4 News, copied to Media Lens, March 27, 2006)
Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow introduced the film:
"Now, he's the president with his own television show and a stream of semi-humorous invective hurled at America and George Bush. Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, accuses the US of planning to invade his country to take control of its vast oil reserves. And last night he invoked the ultimate deterrent - the bow and arrow dipped in Indian poison. 'If we have to put a few arrows into the invading gringo, then you'll be done in thirty seconds.'"
Snow is of course known for his own semi-humorous take on politics. But in the context of Rugman's report, and of wider political commentary, this introduction fits well as part of the ongoing cartoonisation of Chávez.
Full Article : zmag.org
April 10, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, April 10, 2006
¤ Beyond Capitalism: Problems and Solutions
¤ The Great Western Demonology Circus
¤ Falluja April 2004 Video
¤ There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed Video
¤ America’s "Noble" Cause:
¤ Iraqis struggle to cope with lower food rations
¤ A basic history of Zionism and its relation to Judaism
¤ Activists Paint Grim Picture of Struggling City
¤ IRAQ: 'You better confess in order to save your life’
¤ Why didn't you say so?
¤ Iran reporting trip
¤ Does Israel Conduct Covert Action in America?
¤ Niger forgeries, again
¤ Yet another US military lie uncovered
¤ Iraq Mess is Literally Making People Sick
¤ US Censorship and Google
¤ Zurich tops quality of life list, Baghdad last
¤ Blowing Cheney's Cover
¤ Gas prices, discontent rising in Iraq
¤ Dexter Filkins and the Zarqawi psy-ops operation
¤ U.N. accuses Haiti of massive illegal detentions
¤ Gangster Government
¤ Bush's October surprise - it's coming
¤ 'Bush's search for leakers leads to his mirror'
¤ Mission to get allies into united state for Long War
¤ Israel Should Not Be on the Forefront of a War Against Iran
¤ Countdown to U.S.-Iran War Has Begun
¤ Another 9/11 to legitimize attack on Iran?
¤ New Bush leak scandal: Creating a bogeyman in Iraq
¤ Why Iraq Was a Mistake
¤ The Iran plans
¤ 'War' in Iraq/'War' on AIDS: Same Rhetoric/Same Results
¤ Lies Lurk Behind U.S. Terror Policy
¤ Couric Steps into a Credibility Gap
¤ US Propaganda Magnifies Zarqawi Threat
¤ The Bink Wink
¤ "Reality Is No Longer Important"
¤ EU halts Palestinian aid
¤ Why is the U.S. determined to create mayhem?
¤ Moussaoui’s confession is just a joke
¤ The President's 'Final Jeopardy!' Question
¤ Chavez threatens to expel U.S. ambassador
¤ Gunmen kill 5 Afghan medical workers
¤ Quitting Iraq won't undo the real damage of the war
¤ Bush acknowledges declassifying Iraq intelligence
¤ Chirac to scrap employment law
¤ 110 Feared Dead in Ghana Boat Disaster
¤ 29 women and children killed in mosque stampede
Iraq Findings Leaked by Cheney's Aide Were Disputed
Posted: Sunday, April 9, 2006
by David E. Sanger and David Barstow
WASHINGTON — President Bush's apparent order authorizing a senior White House official to reveal to a reporter previously classified intelligence about Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain uranium came as the information was already being discredited by several other officials in the administration, interviews and documents from the time show.
A review of the records and interviews conducted during and after the crucial period in June and July of 2003 also show that what the aide, I. Lewis Libby Jr., said he was authorized to portray as a "key judgment" by intelligence officers had in fact been given much less prominence in the most important assessment of Iraq's weapons capability.
Full Article : commondreams.org
April 9, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, April 9, 2006
¤ 8 Men Found Slain on Canadian Farmland
¤ 'Forgers' of key Iraq war contract named
¤ US leak of Zarqawi letter riles Israelis
¤ Iraqi prisoners vanishing in 'black hole': Blair envoy
¤ Rebels kill 10 in Iraq, 11 bodies found
¤ Iraqi Shiite Mosque Toll Reaches 85
¤ Venezuela rejects protest against US envoy
¤ Cuba claims drug war victory, without US help
¤ Amnesty Throws Dim Light on Black Sites
¤ Battling the Jesus freaks . . . with science!
¤ Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
¤ Exposed, the 'weekend warrior' who was no hero
¤ Briefing: why Moussaoui confession doesn't add up
¤ The truth about a special relationship
¤ 2 killings spark more violence in Katmandu
¤ Oil prices concern EU, Asian ministers
¤ IDF crackdown in Gaza Strip leaves 14 dead
¤ US document portrays dire security situation in Iraq: report
¤ It's a 'state of civil war', admits Iraqi government official
¤ Bush administration 'secretly plans air strikes'
¤ Israeli artillery pounds Gaza
¤ Deadly stampede in Karachi
¤ Leak reveals official story of London bombings
April 8, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, April 8, 2006
¤ Army of the Poor Marches Latin America Further to Left
¤ And Now the News... Or Is It an Ad?
¤ Estimate $3.3 Trillion Missing From U.S. Treasury
¤ The Bush Administration may be destroying the US dollar.
¤ 'Is our democracy an onion skin?'
¤ The Iran Plans
¤ The Century of the Self Video
¤ A Culture of Corruption
¤ American Democracy Indicted
¤ Did Bush Lie to Fitzgerald?
¤ Silence kills and silence is complicity
¤ I Do Believe We Have a Death Threat
¤ USA squanders 300 million dollars on war propaganda in Iraq
¤ Layperson’s guide to counting Iraq deaths
¤ Iraq: Victims of Violence
¤ The Leaker-in-Chief
¤ Triple suicide bombing kills 74 at mosque
¤ 'We need regime change in this country'
¤ Student dies in Russia's latest racist attack
¤ Tornadoes Sweep Through Tennessee, Kill 11
¤ Iraq three years on: Don't look away
¤ US Efforts to Oust Jaafari May Backfire
¤ Libby testimony shows a White House pattern
¤ Rumsfeld and Rice fall out over war tactics
¤ Does Israel Conduct Covert Action in America?
¤ Libby enters troubling territory for the White House
¤ Why We're at War
¤ Is It or Isn’t It?
¤ How, exactly, are troops defending our `national interests' in Afghanistan?
¤ Tit-for-tat reprisals fear after bombers kill 80 at mosque
¤ Trapped on the violent border
¤ Bush’s Bogus Theory of Absolute Power
¤ Mass Hysteria
¤ Suicide Car Bomb Kills 2 Outside NATO Base
¤ Three killed in Afghan attack
¤ Israeli air attack kills six Palestinians
¤ Palestinians decry US, EU aid halt
April 7, 2006 News
Posted: Friday, April 7, 2006
¤ Robert Fisk on Iraq, Palestine and the Failure of the U.S. Corporate Media
¤ Rice moves to block Chavez power play
¤ USA squanders 300 million dollars on war propaganda in Iraq
¤ Three years after looting of Iraqi National Museum
¤ Juxtaposition of the day
¤ Iraqis struggle to cope with lower food rations
¤ The sham of 'sovereignty' in occupied Iraq ...
¤ 70 killed in Iraq mosque attack
¤ Bush implicated in leak on Iraq intelligence
¤ Briton shot by Israelis was murdered, says inquest jury
¤ Israel launches triple air strike on Gaza Strip
¤ Let Us Know Praise OIL
¤ What's Driving the Iranian Nuclear Crisis?
¤ Why Iran Was Right to Refuse US Aid
¤ What Kind of Justice is This?
¤ "Ideologies of Hatred" : What Does Condi Mean?
¤ The Impeachment Clock Just Clicked Forward
¤ Libby Sings
¤ The Danger of Hugo Chávez's Successful Socialism
¤ Those Ungrateful Iraqis!
¤ Exactly Where Is Iran Breaking The Law?
¤ Macedonia and Russia among the CIA prison sites
¤ Stone age man used dentist drill
¤ Why Do We Fear Our Minds?
¤ Yellow Think Tanks and Yellow Journalism
¤ Man tells president he should be ashamed of policies
¤ Mission impossible? True US-Iran dialogue
April 6, 2006 News
Posted: Thursday, April 6, 2006
¤ Phantom al-Zarqawi Targets Hamas
¤ Martin Luther King shooting tapes released online
¤ Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed
¤ Trillion Dollar War
¤ Bush Event Goes Off Script
¤ Contact lens wearers warned about eye fungus
¤ UK Govt hurls BBC into alternate universe!
¤ US soldiers murder another academic
¤ Just Three Years Ago
¤ More than 40,000 Sunnis killed in 18 months?
¤ Iraq Then and Now -- The Actors and Events
¤ No clear direction
¤ Another Surreal Day in the Age of Bush
¤ Bombing near Najaf shrine kills 10
¤ Hopes for announcement on Iraq parliament dashed
¤ The Plame Game
¤ Words for right-wing pundits to choke on
¤ Iran says military threats not in U.S. interests
¤ What Victory Lost
¤ Libby Says Bush Authorized Leaks
¤ A silver bullet aimed at Iraq's head
¤ Israel's US-backed WMD monopoly in the region
¤ A New Perspective on the Sword of Damocles
¤ Venezuela, Iran Vs. U.S.
¤ British Abu-Graib
¤ Goal No. 1: Make the World Safe For Oil Companies
¤ Torture's Roots Run to Washington
¤ 'The War is Illegal. I Can't Pay for a Government Killing Machine'
¤ DeLay Departs: Champagne All Around!
¤ No news good enough for right-wingers
¤ Oil Prices Jump Above $67 Per Bar
¤ Killing us softly with his wrong
¤ Let Me Shine Your Shoes, Sir
¤ Rumsfeld Challenges Rice on 'Tactical Errors' in Iraq
¤ Bush Recognizes Fears About Iraq
¤ Argentina and Uruguay shun US military academy
¤ Helen and Sylvia, the new face of terrorism
¤ Taliban were not 9/11-style terrorists
¤ 'Ass-deep in Duck Soup'
¤ Car bomb kills 15 in Iraqi holy city
¤ The tethered goat strategy
No Proof Saddam Gassed The Kurds!
Posted: Wednesday, April 5, 2006
US Army War College: NO PROOF SADDAM GASSED THE KURDS!
Memo to Jess Helms from InfoTimes. Note excerpt from US Army War College report that no evidence exists to support US claims that Iraq used gas on the Kurds.
Full Article : whatreallyhappened.com
April 5, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, April 5, 2006
¤ Democracy In Iraq Not A Priority in U.S. Budget
¤ US Army War College: No Proof Saddam Gassed The Kurds!
¤ Bush and neocons beating war drums for attack on Iran
¤ Why US Can't Buy Dissent in Iran
¤ Good News! The Rich Get Richer
¤ Israel: Iran is now danger No. 1
¤ AFGHANISTAN: Mines kill and maim up to 100 each month
¤ Saddam returns to court, denounces Interior Ministry
¤ Iraq: neither 'civil war' nor 'chaos'.
¤ If You Can't Win One War, Start Another
¤ I will not be forced out by US and UK, says Iraqi PM
¤ In Iraq, US still carries big stick
¤ Returning to the Scene of the Crime
¤ How Massacres Become the Norm
¤ Baghdad bombs kill at least 13, including kids
¤ Chavez gets Russian helicopters
¤ One Palestinian killed, Israel steps up shelling of Gaza
¤ Amnesty report claims CIA used private flights to hide terror rendition
¤ West’s «claimed» aid policy saves face not lives
¤ Quagmire?
¤ An Arab American Gets "Dubai'd"
¤ West Accused of Fiddling Figures on Iraq Aid
¤ Rice's Trip to Baghdad ... Yet Another 'Tactical Error'
¤ Sex tourism thriving in Bible Belt
April 4, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, April 4, 2006
¤ Hundreds of thousands march in France
¤ Bashing Hugo Chavez at the New York Times
¤ When War Crimes Are Unspeakable
¤ If You Can't Win One War, Start Another
¤ Race, Class and Rape at Duke
¤ Standing Up To Bush
¤ Film-maker's death 'was murder'
¤ Iran, Syria call for withdrawal of occupiers from Iraq
¤ U.S. to create a bird flu virus mutation
¤ The USA's National Debt Clock can't keep up with Bush's spending
¤ Fried Rice to go
¤ JUDGING THE WARMONGERS HARSHLY
¤ 'Condi, war crimes & the press'
¤ Car Bomb Kills 10 in Latest Iraq Violence
¤ Thai PM to step down
¤ Injustices of the West Against The Arab World
¤ Blix: Iran Years Away From Nuclear Bomb
¤ Greg Palast Speaks With President Chavez
¤ Silence in class
¤ Is it still worth it?
¤ Padilla Denied Day in Court
¤ Even little old ladies pack AK-47s in Iraq
Government in secret talks about strike against Iran
Posted: Monday, April 3, 2006
The Government is to hold secret talks with defence chiefs tomorrow to discuss possible military strikes against Iran.
A high-level meeting will take place in the Ministry of Defence at which senior defence chiefs and government officials will consider the consequences of an attack on Iran.
It is believed that an American-led attack, designed to destroy Iran's ability to develop a nuclear bomb, is "inevitable" if Teheran's leaders fail to comply with United Nations demands to freeze their uranium enrichment programme.
Full Article : informationclearinghouse.info
April 3, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, April 3, 2006
¤ The North American State is not only bankrupt, it is totally corrupt
¤ Government in secret talks about strike against Iran
¤ War Against Iran, April 2006
¤ Love and hate in Baghdad
¤ A Dangerous Deal With India
¤ Another brick in the wall
¤ Moussaoui-Lying for jihad
¤ Maliki: "US Will Destroy Iraq"
¤ The War Drums Are Sounding A Clear Message
¤ Don't Worry - It's Just Another Palestinian Child's Death
¤ Iraq: the real motives
¤ US Media Dead Silent On Israel Lobby Report
¤ Pentagon Thievery
¤ Civilians in Iraq Flee Mixed Areas as Killings Rise
¤ Gasp! If Attacked Iran Would Actually Defend Itself
¤ Your Huddled Masses are now my Wretched Refuse
¤ 'Very warmly welcomed'
¤ Noam Chomsky and the Pro-Israel Lobby
¤ Thought Control
¤ Chávez seeks to peg oil at $50 a barrel
¤ Thais face further political turmoil after poll boycott
¤ The new definition of military valour - saying no to politicians
¤ Straw and Rice try to break Iraqi deadlock
¤ Don't Expect to Change the Afghanis
¤ Mother Bush Takes Care of her Brood
¤ US 'Intoxicated' by Power: Gorbachev
¤ Agent Orange: The Legacy of a Weapon of Mass Destruction
¤ The Hyperpower Hype and Where It Took Us
¤ US bases in Iraq: a costly legacy
¤ Invading the Falkland Islands was a cowardly act
¤ Forget the Blair-Brown battle
¤ Anti-war protesters to target BBC
¤ Insurgents blow up small Shiite mosque
¤ Taliban set ablaze U.S. military base-bound oil tankers
¤ Israel uses tear gas, rubber bullets against prisoners
¤ US will Find Another Excuse to Target Iran
¤ ABC Suspends Producer Over Bush-Bashing E-Mail
¤ US deserter 'shocked by abuses'
¤ Halliburton's War
¤ U.S. Military There are no plans to leave Iraq.
¤ 93 was shot down (Part 1)
¤ The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll
¤ 'The Taliban Are Terrorists'
¤ Israeli Wall in the West Bank:
¤ And the war came
¤ Not because of our blue eyes
¤ America's Brutal Tactics
April 1, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, April 1, 2006
¤ Iraq: Sectarian conflict grows
¤ Bush Pledges More Mayhem in the Middle East
¤ Bolton Really Is Bonkers
¤ Saddam chose to deny inspectors
¤ Did Oprah Pick Another Fibber?
¤ You're Damn Right Race Matters
¤ International Occupation Isn't Helping Afghanistan
¤ The War Drums Are Getting Louder
¤ And Now: He-e-e-e-re’s Georgie!
¤ At least 30 Afghan civilians perished in US bombardment
¤ Shoot first, ask questions later
¤ America's Brutal Tactics
¤ Dear George... Have I Told You How Much I Appreciate You?
¤ Throwing Stones at Venezuela
¤ 'Peddling deception'
¤ Indian nuclear deal: Bad timing by Bush
¤ If you want to get better - don't say a little prayer
¤ Rice: Don't take Iraq errors 'literally'
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